Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – technical overview

Righi, Mattia; Andela, Bouwe; Eyring, Veronika; Lauer, Axel; Predoi, Valeriu; Schlund, Manuel; Vegas-Regidor, Javier; Bock, Lisa; Brötz, Björn; de Mora, Lee; Diblen, Faruk; Dreyer, Laura; Drost, Niels; Earnshaw, Paul; Hassler, Birgit; Koldunov, Nikolay; Little, Bill; Loosveldt Tomas, Saskia; Zimmermann, Klaus

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1179-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1179-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1179-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Methods for assessment of models

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16 Mar 2020

Methods for assessment of models |

| 16 Mar 2020

Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – technical overview

Mattia Righi, Bouwe Andela, Veronika Eyring, Axel Lauer, Valeriu Predoi, Manuel Schlund, Javier Vegas-Regidor, Lisa Bock, Björn Brötz, Lee de Mora, Faruk Diblen, Laura Dreyer, Niels Drost, Paul Earnshaw, Birgit Hassler, Nikolay Koldunov, Bill Little, Saskia Loosveldt Tomas, and Klaus Zimmermann

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RC1: 'Mayor revision of manuscript: "ESMValTool v2.0 – Technical overview" by Mattia Righi, et. al. - gmd-2019-226', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Nov 2019
RC2: 'Excellent paper and excellent tool', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Dec 2019
AC1: 'Authors' reply', Mattia Righi, 17 Jan 2020

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AR by Mattia Righi on behalf of the Authors (17 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (26 Jan 2020) by Juan Antonio Añel

AR by Mattia Righi on behalf of the Authors (28 Jan 2020)

Short summary

This paper describes the second major release of ESMValTool, a community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for the evaluation of Earth system models. This new version features a brand new design, with an improved interface and a revised preprocessor. It takes advantage of state-of-the-art computational libraries and methods to deploy efficient and user-friendly data processing, improving the performance over its predecessor by more than a factor of 30.